Easily-distracted Australian professor of linguistics @UniBirmingham, UK.Hearing person interested in sign languages.Opinions my own.He/him.🇦🇺🇲🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈

Birmingham, England
Joined September 2011
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The new crime survey is out - the "Lawless Britain" picture in full - Violence at lowest since records began in 1981 - Corroborated by hospital figures for knife wounds - Robbery: record low - Overall crime 78% below 1995 peak. - Shoplifting up More:- comment.press/lawless
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Well as predicted, Cadent have come, destroyed less than 3 year old paving and left off leaving tarmac to blight the area. Another one to add to the list
So Cadent have absolutely DESTROYED the block paving on Waterloo Street in two separate areas, so just like Colmore Row, prepare for these areas to be replaced with tarmac for the foreseeable future. Fed up of finally getting improvements to the City just for them to be ruined.
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I tried 3 times to get an NHS appointment to discuss the results from my assessment. Once I messed up and missed the date and had to ask to reschedule. The two other times -despite waiting online- the specialist didn’t keep the appointment. They then threw me off the waiting list
Its fine, there isn't really any actual support for neurological disability in adulthood anyway, Daniel's mum just hasn't realise that yet. The cost to the global economy of not treating & supporting ADHD *alone* is estimated to be $123 billion/yr in costs incurred elsewhere.
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Excl: ADHD and autism are not widely overdiagnosed in the UK, a major Government review is expected to find. The report is set to conclude that growing numbers are incentivised to seek an official diagnosis because support can be hard to get without one. inews.co.uk/news/claims-mass…
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The UK's universities are under pressure from every direction. We asked eight higher education leaders for their thoughts go.nature.com/4cKLRSJ
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Out now! Sign Language Linguistics by Schembri et al. | A uniquely international and comparative introduction to the structure and use of ASL and BSL. Find out more: ☑️ cup.org/4uu0pfg
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UK is sabotaging its own future by closing university courses in: Chemistry, Nursing, Physics, Modern Languages, Music Astronomy, Creative Arts, English, History, Classics A gutting of the disciplines that keep people alive, drive discovery & sustain any claim to culture
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Electric cars were not invented to save the planet, our lives or our cities. They were only invented to save the car industry. (🖼️ by Antonio Huerta)
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I have a stovetop Moka pot and I live in the JQ.
Birmingham as coffee choices City centre: pods Bournville: cafetiere Stirchley: aeropress Moseley: stovetop Am I right? ☕️🫕
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